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Connecticut to Ramp-Up Racial Profiling Reporting Following Justice Dept. Report
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Things are about to change in Connecticut. Following the Justice Department’s discovery of a pattern of discrimination in one town, law enforcement officials have announced they will ramp up efforts to crack down on racial profiling, Fox News Latino reports. Police Departments are supposed to track potential racial profiling by officers…
At FBI, Hope for Injured Soldiers Returning Home
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It was an IED that did it for Povas Miknaitis. After an initial deployment to Iraq in 2008, he was later sent to Afghanistan as a Marine rifleman. In Afghanistan, an IED blast sent shrapnel flying; some hit his arm and abdomen; larger pieces struck his face, shattering his jaw and…
FBI Investigates ‘Non-Hazardous’ Powder Sent to Florida Prosecutor’s Office
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The return of the Anthrax it was not. Still, three people reported falling ill on Tuesday after being exposed to a “suspicious” powder in the mail room of the State Attorney’s Office in West Palm Beach office, a city spokesman told CNN. Now the FBI is investigating the incident. The powder…
FBI Says Man Threatened to Kill Jews and Blacks
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Abraham Foxman, the leader of the Anti-Defamation League leader, may have been targeted by a white supremacist planning to kill Jews and blacks, the FBI said, according to the Jewish news website JTA. Danny Lee Warner, 33, told his wife about the plan before being arrested on Dec. 28 outside of…
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Gets Rare ‘Red State’ Endorsement
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder, a favorite target of Congressional Republicans in the wake of the Fast and Furious debacle in which ATF officials let guns “walk” from Southwestern dealers in the US to drug cartels in Mexico, is getting a rare endorsement from a prominent official in Utah–“perhaps the reddest of…
ATF Agent Was Likely Killed by Friendly Fire, NY Daily News Reports
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sadly, investigators believe the off-duty ATF agent who was shot and killed while struggling with a robbery suspect last Saturday at a Long Island pharmacy, was likely shot by friendly fire from a retired Nassau County police lieutenant, the New York Daily News reported, citing unnamed sources. The paper reported that…
Three Arrested, One at Large in Illegal Stem Cell “Cure” Scheme
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Three men were arrested in the past ten days for a scheme that involved exploiting the last hopes of the terminally ill, according to a Reuters report. The three men — and a fourth still being pursued by the FBI — were accused of scheming to market stem cells, unapproved by…
FBI, ATF Join Abortion Clinic Arson Investigation in Fla.
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal investigators are looking into a suspicious early-Sunday blaze at a Florida abortion clinic which has seen violence in the past, reports the Associated Press. The fire occurred at American Family Planning in the panhandle town of Pensacola, Fla. this weekend and largely destroyed the two-story building, but no people were…